Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-03

property owned by the Southern Ia
cific Company at these points runs
from Sixth street 1900 feet towards
! Third. and is 300 feet wide, compris
ing in these limits, thirteen acres o.
valuable land. The building fronts. or
Wolfskill avenue, with an elegant
main entrance that gives the whole
structure a somewhat gothic ap
; pearance. The ground floor con
tains the public rooms and Offices
while the second story is utilized FOL
the general offices of the company.
The main waiting room is GA feet
| IA inches in length, by 81 feet 3S
inches in breadth, and composes the
main entrance, on the passenger size
Of the building.
I At the eastern side of the room is
the ticket office, 81 feet IL = inches
vide, by "a feet in length, with four
ticket windows in the room and two
on the outside of the building, on the
| platform. The door OF this office
"opens in the waiting room. III the
left hand corner of the waiting room
lnext to the car shed is a lobby, from
which steps lead to the second story,
or the general offices. '--e,..- -n11. rtA 3
On each side of the ticket office
openinp on the platform are large
double doors with stained glass panels
and on the front side is large double
door with magnificent panels of
stained glass. -.-.
! On the right Of the main waiting
room is located the bar-room, and in
this bar-room are the gentlemen's
water closets and toilet stands.
Large doors open from the bar-room
upon the front and rear platforms, and
in one corner of the room is passage
leading into the dining-room.
The dining-room is to be a magniii-
cent hall go feet "a inches in length
by 36L feet in breadth, with large
entrance from the car-shed, or rear
platform, and the small one already
mentioned from the bar-room. From
the dining-room a door opens into a
large servants hall, IL feet 3 4of an
inch in length and 10 feet 5a4 inches
| in width. Another door opens from
the dining-room and leads into pas
sage 5x6 feet that opens into pantry,
the size of which is 26 feet by ii feet
| 101a inches.
From the pantry door opens into
the kitchen, size, 271a feet by % feet
116 inches. A passage leading from
the kitchen opens into the bakery, IA
feet by Is feet 51s inches; the fuel
shed, Ike feet. and store-room, which
is 1414xl5 feet 5114 inches.
The south end of the platform is
| furnished with waterclosets for the use
of the general public.
A large, and finely finished iron
railing will run around the ends and
front part of this building that will
prevent teams from interfering with
foot passengers on the platform.
The foregoing is description OF the
building to the right of the main wait
ing room.
On the left side of this room, con-
nected by passage IL feet inches
long by feet 6 inches in width is the
ladies waiting and toilet rooms; 81
feet in length by o5 feet 6,a inches in
breadth. This room possesses large
entrance opening upon the front part
of the building.
Entering the depot from Wolfskill
avenue, in search of Wells, Fargo &
Co.'s Express office, the visitor would
turn to the left, and walking a few
PAGES, find himself at the entrance ola
room SO by 35 feet. This is Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s office.
Still further to the left is found the
main entrance to the baggage-room,
60 feet and Il inches in length by So
| feet in breath. In the left end OF this
room is the delivery counter, opening
upon platform built about four feet
from the ground, to facilitate the
rapid handling of baggage.
Wells, Fargo q. Co.'S office, the
ladies' waiting-room and the bar
room all have large entrances on
Wolfskill avenue, or, the front of the
depot. The other apartments, ex-
cepting the grand main entrance, have
entrances only upon the rear, or, pas
senger side of the depot. From end
to end OF the structure is platform
"a feet wide, with q iron columns, 25
feet apart, supporting the roof of the
car-shed, which covers four tracks OF
Is feet each.
| The full breadth of the building is
80 feet, and the length is 507 feet
inches.
The entrance to the car-shed is q
grand arch 73 feet wide at the base,
with height of q feet from the top
of the rails to the arch above. The
cars enter from Alameda street at one
end of the building, and pull out at
the other end on Alameda street. The
front entrances extend out over the
baggage, kitchen and living rooms
several feet, and add much to the
beauty of the building. Over these
entrances slate will be used to finish
the sides and angles, though the prin-
cipal materials to be used in the con-
struction are brick, iron, glass and
stone, with corrugated iron ornaments.
The roof will be almost entirely of
glass and iron, and very little wood
will be used.
The lattice work on the grand arch
leading into the car-ehed will be made
of iron and glass, the stairs will be OF
iron on the inside and rair running
up to the second story on the out side
OF the building will be constructed OF
iron and glass.
| At each corner of the building there
will be towers erected, in which will
be placed electric lights.
| Between Wolfskill avenue and the
front of the depot there is stretch OF
ground running the full length of the
depot, 100 feet wide, that has a fine
orange grove upon it.
This stretch of ground with the ex-
ception OF forty-foot drive, is to be
preserved and embellished for park.
/ Mr.. Crocker, the Vice-President oi
the road, says he intends to make
this spot something OF paradise
, that the passengers may see, when
they alight from the cars, what 9
railroad com pany can do toward hav
. ing nice grounds in California.